Western Civ Final Exam: Chapters 5-8 and 13-15

The English king who helped establish a unified Anglo-Saxon monarch by defeating the Danish army was

Alfred the Great

In Rome the male family head could

All of the above (sell his children, put his children to death, divorce his wife, arranges the marriages of all offspring)

Cicero

All of these are correct. (believed in a "concord of the orders", was a "new man" of the equestrian order, was a great orator and capable lawyer, advocated a balanced government of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy)

In 597, Pope Gregory the Great sent which of the following to England and laid the foundation for the monastic movement was

Augustine

When Augustus died, who chose his successor?

Augustus himself

The "Apostle to the Germans" and the most famous churchman in Europe in the eighth century was

Boniface

Hadrian built a defensive wall in which Roman territory?

Britain

The founder of the Frankish kingdom and the first monarchic, Frankish defender of the Catholic faith was

Clovis

The last great persecution of Christians was ordered by

Diocletian

Which of the following statements best describes the governing of Roman provinces under Augustus?

Efficient, with legates cooperating with the local elites.

One of the most famous Vikings, who discovered Greenland, was

Erik the Red

The great difference between Irish Christianity and Roman Christianity was in

Irish church organization, giving Irish abbots more power than bishops.

Muhammad was born in

Mecca

The most important figure in early Christianity after Jesus was

Paul of Tarsus

The first Frankish king to be anointed in holy ceremony by an agent of the pope was

Pepin

The immediate cause of the First Punic War was

Rome sending an army to Sicily

The Swedish Vikings tended to concentrate on conquests and trade in

Russia

The holy man who created the first community of monks in Egypt and laid the foundation for the monastic movement was

Saint Anthony

The most Muslin rids in the ninth century occurred in

Sicily

Which of the following statements was not true of Roman society in the Early Empire

Slaves were treated more harshly as their numbers increased

Romans did not readily accept any Greek philosophy except that of

Stoicism, because of its emphasis on virtue and duty

Augustine wrote which one of the following books?

The City of God

Which of the following statements about the byzantine emperor is not accurate?

The emperor mimicked Christ-like humility and allowed his subjects to approach him as equals.

Which of the following statements best applies to Roman education

The wealthy classes wanted training in Greek and mastery of rhetoric, or persuasive public speaking, for their children.

In the Middle Ages, monastic hospitality to travelers was

a sacred duty

Augustine's Confessions was written as

an account of his own miraculous personal conversion

Justinian's most important lasting contribution to Western civilization was his

codification of Roman law

The prolific "silver age" writer Seneca

composed philosophical letters on the theme of Stoicism.

The Roman Senate

could only advise the magistrates in legal matters

The Council of Nicaea in 325

defined Christ as being "of the same substance" as God.

In Germanic society wergald

developed as an alternative to acts of revenge for injury or death

The Treaty of Verdun in 843

divided in Carolingian empire

The Roman praetorian guards were

elite troops given the task of protecting the emperor

The early values of Christianity, as exemplified in Jesus' "sermon on the mount,"

emphasized devotion to the values of humility, charity, and true brotherly love.

Sulla's legacy and importance was that he

employed his personal army in political disputes, paving the way toward Roman civil war

The missi dominici were officials that Charlemagne used to

enure his counts were following his wishes

According to Cassiodorus, the trivium includes which of the following subjects?

grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic or logic.

Which of the following is not true of the Colosseum

it was destroyed by Caligula

Augustus's social legislation

made adultery a criminal offense and outlawed wasteful expenditures for feasts.

The paterfamilias in Roman society was

male head of the family.

Rome set a precedent for treating its vanquished foes after forming the Roman Confederation by

offering its most favored allies full Roman citizenship, this giving them a stake in successful Roman expansion.

The "golden age" historian Livy is well known for his

perceiving history in terms of sharp moral lessons.

Frankish marriage customs

placed strong sanctions on adulterous women

The Carolingian monks

preserved the works of Classical Latin authors through their copying of manuscripts

The Senate granted Octavian the titles of Augustus and imperator(emperor), but he preferred to be addressed as

princeps

In feudal Europe, a vassal was man who

served another as a warrior

Trade and commerce in the Early Empire

stimulated manufacturing, concentrated some industries in certain areas, was secondary in importance to agriculture

At the Battle if Cannae the Romans

suffered a devastating defeat by Hannibal

The coronation of Charlemagne in 800 as emperor of the Romans

symbolized fusion of Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultures.

The Frankish palace official,Charles Martel, successfully defeated which of the following near Poitiers in 732?

the Muslims

In the year 532, Justinian almost fled the capital because of

the Nika riots

After Rome crushed the Latin states in the fourth century B.C., it was waged a 50-year struggle against

the Samnites

The result of the Third Punic War was

the complete destruction and subjugation of Carthage

The Aeneid is a poem about

the founding of Rome

All of the following occurred during the reigns of the five "good emperors" except for

the halting of imperial bureaucratic growth

Under feudalism of the Early Middle Ages

the major obligation of a vassal to his lord was to provide military service

In Roman household cults, Janus was

the spirit of the doorway

Under the rule of Augustus, the Roman Empire

turned towards as absolute monarchy, with the princeps overshadowing the Senate.

The Edict of Milan

was Constantine's document officially tolerating the existence of Christianity

The Struggle of the Orders

was a peaceful struggle which resulted in political compromise

Manorialism

was an economic system based upon landed estates

In feudal Europe, a serf was a man who

was bund to the land as a farmer.

The expansion of the Carolingian Empire under Charlemagne

was most successful against the German tribes to the east

The Petrine Doctrine

was the belief that the bishops of Rome held a preeminent position in the church

Regarding sexuality, the Catholic Church in the Early Middle Ages

was unable to enforce clerical celibacy.

The economic structure of the Early Middle Ages

was underdeveloped and predominantly agricultural

By crossing the Rubicon, Caesar showed that he

was willing to disobey the direct orders of the Senate

Imperial Rome's gladiatorial shows

were government-backed spectacles used to content the masses.

The Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians

were greatly influenced by assimilation into the Catholic church and Latin culture

The Slavs

were originally a single people in central Europe.

The Twelve Tables

were the first formal codification of Roman law and customs

Pope Gregory the Great was responsible for all of the following except

writing The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.